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The angry wheezing in the passages of her head sounded like a ghost in a ruined house.
The teeth between her parted lips were like white bone showing in a wound.
Curlyhead talked and acted like a pro, or at least a gifted amateur with a vocation.
His upturned face was gray and impervious-looking, like the stone faces on tombs.
Its contents emitted a whiff of tobacco, sea water, sweat, and the subtler indescribable odor of masculine loneliness.
Another tune failed to survive the operation, and then the lights went up.
Bolling stood with pursed lips and absorbed it like a little boy sucking soda pop through a straw.
I get tired of the shaves and the shave-nots.’
‘You can’t make a Hamlet without breaking egos.
She had blue-white hair and a look on her face you don’t see too often any more, the look of a woman who hasn’t been disappointed:
with a face like an unfinished sculpture.
I was touched by her asphalt innocence.
‘If what works out?’ ‘Developments. Also I’ll mention you in my memoirs.’
The ugliness rose like smoke in the room, spreading to its far corners, fouling the light at the window.
I sat there like a penitent while the minute hand of the clock took little pouncing bites of eternity.
His bald scalp gleamed like polished stone in the light from the chandelier.
The Galton household had hot and cold running money piped in from an inexhaustible reservoir. But money was never free. Like any other commodity, it had to be paid for.
began to draft a mental letter to my congressman advocating legislation prohibiting the manufacture of guns except for military purposes.
When I hit him I was lashing out at the other boy, too, reacting to a world of treacherous little hustlers that wouldn’t let a man believe in it.
Howell wrestled his car up the climbing curves. The tires shuddered and screeched like lost souls under punishment.
He hadn’t been able to carry her weight. In the stretching gap between his weakness and her need, Culligan had driven a wedge, and the whole structure had fallen.
